Earmarks

111th Congress Earmarks

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Here you will find earmark recipients that also operate political action
committees. Note that comparing top recipients year-by-year is made virtually impossible by the lack of
congressional transparency on the actual recipient of defense earmark spending. Instead of disclosing the
name of the organization with the earmark funding, one must refer back to the earmark request letter for
that information. Data, once it becomes available, will be added here on an ongoing basis. Ultimately,
the lack of meaningful access to earmark information is a strong argument for why Congress should release
all of the data in one easy to use package.

The earmark, contribution and lobbying data displayed below is a joint effort of the Center for Responsive Politics
and Taxpayers for Common Sense. All earmark data is provided by Taxpayers for Common Sense
and all contribution and lobbying data is provided by the Center for Responsive Politics.

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